VMware Upgrade

I know a decent amount about VMware but just looking for a little bit of advice on the upgrade. Currently the environment has 1 host with 3 Virtuals. ESXi is currently 4.1.1 and they would like to upgrade to 5.5. From what I see I believe they installed ESXi on the raid instead of the typical flash drive. One question I have is, can I just remove VCenter and ESXi, slot a flash drive and install 5.5, attach the datastore and inventory the VMs?

The VMware Hardware Compatibility List is the detailed lists showing actual vendor devices that are either physically tested or are similar to the devices tested by VMware or VMware partners. Items on the list are tested with VMware products and are known to operate correctly.Devices which are not on the list may function, but will not be supported by VMware.

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